News

  1. Astronomy

    An assault on comets

    Over the next few years, a trio of comet missions, one of which was launched recently, promises to provide the closet look yet at the core of these icy relics from the formation of the solar system.

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  2. Earth

    Monsoon Warning: Data hint at wet and blustery future

    Asian monsoons have been intensifying over the last 400 years, and they're slated to get worse.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    For Failing Hearts: Gene therapy stops decline in animals

    Tests in hamsters have raised hopes for creating a gene therapy to stop the common downward spiral of chronic heart failure.

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  4. Chemistry

    Mimicking the Best of Nature’s Binders: New technique produces artificial receptors

    Scientists have devised a new way to make artificial receptors that differentiate among similar molecules.